Someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded.
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Examples for "fifth wheel "
Examples for "fifth wheel "
1 She didn't want to be a fifth wheel on New Year's Eve.
2 She had always been the fifth wheel , passed from hand to hand.
3 The fifth wheel consists of two small flanges working on the face surfaces.
4 A council to the Duke of Burgundy was indeed a veritable fifth wheel .
5 A soul's a sort of a fifth wheel to a wagon.
1 Tyrion was gathering deadwood while their horses took water from a mountain stream.
2 It provided cover and helped get rid of deadwood on your own staff.
3 You sure got the deadwood on him when yore spurs got into action.
4 She had arranged the deadwood , and he had set it afire.
5 I wanted to get rid of some of the deadwood and so forth.
6 They all know I'm the biggest piece of deadwood in the entire company.
7 He brought back a piece of deadwood and laid it at Stu's feet.
8 The deadwood had long since been cut out of the rotting ship he'd inherited.
9 Owein fed the last of the deadwood into the fire.
10 Flames licked against the deadwood and chased the forest shadows.
11 I lurched across the sand toward him, legs scissoring nervelessly, so much driven deadwood .
12 They hung like deadwood at the ends of his arms.
13 This election has swept away much of the old deadwood .
14 We had a premonition that Elise wouldn't want the deadwood of Jimmie's former Division.
15 Owein appeared once more, his arms laden with deadwood .
16 The boy froze, arms wrapped about the load of deadwood , his heart in his throat.
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